Meryl Streep says she and Cher once stopped a mugging: 'I just went completely nuts'

Meryl Streep said she and Cher once stopped a mugger in New York City.

The event may have happened in the early 1980s, when the two were filming "Silkwood" in NYC.

You can watch Streep's full remarks below.

Meryl Streep said she and Cher once stopped a mugger in New York City.

"I just went completely nuts and went after this man," Streep said of seeing a woman being mugged, according to the The New York Post's Page Six. "Ask Cher — she was there. And the thug ran away, it was a miracle."

The attempted mugging may have been in 1982 or 1983, Vogue suggested, when Cher and Streep were filming "Silkwood" together in New York City.

Streep said the few violent moments she'd experienced in her life had changed her.

"I was changed by these events on a cellular level because women do know something particular about coming to the danger place," Streep said. "We come to it disadvantaged through the many millennia preceding our present moment and because of our vulnerability, we anticipate danger — we expect it."

Watch Streep's full remarks below:

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